Apparatus for treating wire



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No. 465,700. Patented Deo. 22; 1891.

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IVILL L. HAYES AND JOHh H. KONIG, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

APPARATUS FOR TREATING WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. {165,700, dated December 22, 1891.

Application filed March 2,1891. $eria1No. 383,33 (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, WVILL L. HAYES and JOHN H. KONIG, citizens of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Guyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented or discovered certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Treating ire, &c., of which the following is a specification.

The invention described herein relates to certain improvements in apparatus for pickling, cleaning, and coating wire, & c., and has for its object a construction of apparatus whereby the wire or wire rods in coils can be automatically placed in the first bath, moved therethrough, and then transferred to next or cleaning bath, and so through the entire series of baths.

. In general terms the invention consists in the construction and combination substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a view in side elevation of our improved apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end elevation thereof. Figs. 4:, 6, and 7 are side elevations of modifications of the lifting mechanism, and Fig. 5 is an end ele-- vation of the mechanism shown in Fig. 4c.

In the practice of our invention two, three, or more vats 1 1 1, dependent upon the man nor in which the wireis to be treated, are arranged in a row, as shown in Fig. 1. At the'front and rear ends of the first and last vats and intermediate of the other vats are uprights 2 2 2 2, provided with bearings on.

their upper ends for the shafts of the lifters 3, 3, 3, and 3, which may be made in the form of gear-wheels, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, arms moving in an ellipsoidal path, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, a spider or frame, as shown in Fig. 6, or an endless chain passing around sprocket-wheels, as shown in Fig. 7 As shown in Figs.1, 2, and 3, these gear-wheels intermesh with pinions 4 on counter-shafts 5, which are provided on their outer ends with beveled pinions 6, arranged to intermesh with corresponding pinions? on the power-shaft 8. Pockets 9 are pivoted at suitable intervals around the inner perimeters of the gearwheels, said pockets having their free ends so weighted as to always remain in a vertical or operative position.

In using the apparatus a series of coils or bundles of wire are arranged alongside of each and a bar 10 is passed through them, the ends of the bar engaging or being secured in links 11, depending from a shaft 12. The shaft being connected, as described, to the wire bundles, the latter are carried by a truck or other suitable means until the ends of the shaft 12 are in the path of the pockets 9 on the gear-wheels or lifters 3, which, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, are placed on opposite sides of the va't and in such relation to the front end of the vat that a vertical plane passing through the axes of the pockets 9 will, during a portion of the rotation of the lifters, pass outside of the front end of the vat and during another portion of such rotation will enter the vat. As the gear-wheels or lifters rotate two corresponding pockets will engage the ends of the shaft 12 and carry it and the bundles depending therefrom up and backwardly, finallydepositingthe flanged wheels13,mounted on the shaft 12, upon the rails 14. These rails 1e are supported on brackets 15, secured to the sides of and extend the entire length of the vat, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, said vat being made of such a depth that when the wheels 13 rest upon the rails the bundles will hang clear of the bottom of the vat, as shown in Fig. 1. The bundles are moved along through the vat by means of endless chains 16, provided with dogs 17,-arranged to engage the shaft outside of the wheels 13, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. These chains pass around sprocketwheels 18, arranged at opposite ends of the line of vats, and the upper portions of the chains between the sprocket wheels pass along channel-irons 19, supported, as shown in Fig. 3, by the brackets, thereby prevent such portions of the chain from swaying down,

so as to permit of the dogs passing under the shafts 12. On the shaft of the sprocketwheels at the front end of the line of vats is secured a gear-wheel 20, intermeshing with a pinion 21 on the counter-shaft 22, which has on its outer end a beveled pinion 23, intermeshing with a correspondinglyshaped pin- 7 ion 24 on the power-shaft 3.

In order to disengage the shafts 12 from the dogs 17 when the bundles arrive at the rear end of the vat, a suitable tripping device, as inclines 25, is secured to the edges IOO of the vat, as shown in Fig. 2. Asthe shaft 12, with the depending bundles, approaches the rear end of the vat the shaft will ride up the inclines, and, being raised a sufficient height to permit of the passage of the dogs under them, will rest upon the level toppertions of the inclines until the ends of the shaft are engaged by the pockets of the lifter 3*. This lifter 3 raises the bundles of coils from the vat 1 and. transfers them to the vatv .1, the wheels 13 being placed upon the rails the chains 16. As the shaft approaches the rear end of the vat 1 it is raised above the level of the dogs 17 by the trip-inclines 25, when it is caught by the pockets of-the' lifter 3 andtransferred in the manner herein detransferringthem'to'another vat or truck may be employed.

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form of gear-wheels, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, pockets '9 may-bepivoted to pitman '26, connected to rotating crank-arms 27Iand provided with studs 28, entering elliptical grooves'29, formed in plates30, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. These plates are arranged in the'position as regards the vats as thegearwheels, shown in Figs. 1, 2, an'd3.

In Fig. 6 is shown a frame 31, provided with a series of radial arms having pockets 9 pivoted to their outer ends,and in Fig. 7 is shown an endless chain or belt 32, passing around sprocket-wheels 33 and having a series of pockets pivoted thereto. Theseand other constructions which will readily'sug gest themselves to the skilled mechanic may be employed as lifters in lieu of thegearwheels shown in Figs. 1 and 2. i

"We claim herein as our invention- 1. In an apparatus for treating Wire, &c., the combination of a treating-vat, arotating lifter adapted to receive a bundle of wire on the side thereof remote from the vat, transfer it to the opposite side, and deposit it in the vat, mechanism for moving the bundle along thev'ahand a second independent'lifter for raising the bundle from and" depositing it at a pointoutside of such vat, substantially as set forth. '2.'In an apparatus for treating wire, &c., the combination of a vat, a shaft provided "with means for attaching a bundle of wireor other articles thereto, a series of movable pockets constructed to engage the shaft at a point beyond one end of the vat and deposit it on and transverse of the vat, traveling a second series of movable pockets for en- The shaft, with the depending bundles, is carried along the vat 1 by the dogs'17 on gaging the shaft and depositing it beyond the opposite end of the vat, substantially as set forth.

3. In an apparatus for treating wire, &c., the combination of a vat, a shaft provided with means forattaching a bundle of wire thereto, a series of movable pockets adapted to engage the shaft at apoint beyond one end of the vatand deposit it on the vat and transverse thereof, traveling dogs for shifting the shaft along the vat, a trip independent of the pockets for disengaging the shaft from the *dogs, and a second series of movable pockets for engaging the shaft and depositing it at a point beyond the opposite end of thevat,-substantially as setforth.

4. In an? apparatus for treating wire, '&0.,

the combination of a vat, rails 'arrangedzalongside of the vat, a shaft, provided? with means for attaching. a *b'undle'of "wire thereto and I havingbearing-wheels secured" thereon, aseries of movable pockets "adapted to'engage the shaft at "aigp'oint beyond one'end' of the vat and deposit it on the vat with the wheels riding onthe"rails, chains movablefrom end to "end of the-vat-and pmvidedwith dogs for engaging the sh aftyanda second seriesof pockets movable froma point over the vat to'a'point beyond theo'ppositeen d thereof; susbtantially as set forth.

5.'In an apparatusfor treatingawire,'&c., the combination of a vat, a shaft provided with means for attaching [a' bundle'bf'wire thereto, "a pair'of; rotating wheels at oneend of the vat, pockets pivoted thereto-andadapted to engage the endscof the shaft, means for shifting the shaft alongv the vat, and" a .pair of wheelsat the opposite end of the vat;'having pockets pivoted thereto and adapted'to engage the ends of the shaft, substantially as set forth.

6. In an apparatus for treating W'l1'6,.&0., the combination of a vat, av shaft provided with means for." attachingj a'bundle of wire thereto, a pair'of' wheels-at *one end-of the vat, pockets pivoted'thereto andadapted to mechanism for" moving thebundle along the Vania lifter arranged between the adjacent ends-of two vats and adaptedto'transfer the bundle fromthe rear end 'of the-first vat to thefronttendof the second vat,"mechanism for moving the bundle alongthe second vat, and a lifter arranged atitherear end or the -s'ec'ond vat and" adapted 'toremoveLthe bundle therefrom,substantially asset forth.

8. In an apparatus for treating wire; &c.,

i r l the eombinatio n of a series of two or more ferring the shaft from the vat, substantially to vats, a shaft provided with means for attaehas set forth.

ing a bundle of Wires thereto, movable poek- In testimony whereof we have hereunto set ets for engaging the shaft and placing it our hands. I transversely of the first vat, traveling dogs WILL L. HAYES. for moving the shaft along the vat, movable JNO. H. KONIG. pockets for transferring the shaft to the next Witnesses:

vat, traveling dogs for moving the shaft along GEO. D. DEAN,

said seeondvat, and movable pockets for trans- \VILL C. MARTIN. 

